Silence.
For a moment, there was nothing. No light, no pressure, no sound. Just a void deeper than anything Emery had ever experienced.
The teleportation had worked—they had narrowly escaped the crushing jaws of the serpent horde. But what they had entered… was something else entirely.
Gone was the static emptiness of the void. Now, gravity returned—heavy and urgent. Wind howled around them like a storm in a vacuum, and it felt as though they were plummeting through an endless night sky lit by eerie, shifting auroras.
"Where… where are we?" Soltz asked, his voice sharp with lingering panic.
All eyes turned toward the dark Emery—the split soul who had cast the spell. But it was the Supreme Magus Rosin Karat who answered instead, his voice grave.
"We're inside it," he said. "Inside the World Beast."
"What?!"
